What exactly do you mean by a "Perl date"? There's no such thing as a "date" type in Perl. You might mean "seconds since epoch", but even that is not a portable concept, as Perl will use your OSses idea of an epoch. The epoch on a Unix system will be 1-Jan-1970 00:00:00, but on VMS, it's 17-Nov-1858 00:00:00.

Also note that if you mean "seconds since 1970", there's no trivial 1-to-1 function to database specific dates, as they usually have a much wider range and/or higher granuality.

Luckely, many databases will accept dates in wide range of formats. If you stick to an ISO standard for instance, you should have many problems.

Abigail

In reply to Re: dbi and dates by Abigail-II
in thread dbi and dates by smackdab

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